Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury (13 March 1949-22 November 2015) was a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who was executed in 2015 for war crimes committed during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.

Biography
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was born on 13 March 1949 in Raozan Upazila, Chittagong, East Pakistan to Pakistani acting president Fazlul Quader Chowdhury and his Bengali wife. As his father was a Pakistani politician, Chowdhury strongly opposed the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan, and during the Bangladesh Liberation War he was accused of crimes, including the murder of 6 Hindus on 5 April 1971, killing 32 people alongside the Pakistani Army, and taking part in the massacre of 76 people in the Hindu village of Boalkhali. Chowdhury became a politician in the new country of Bangladesh after the war, joining Ziaur Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party and serving as a member of parliament for seven terms; from 2001 to 2006 he was the adviser of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia for parliamentary affairs. On 1 October 2013 he was sentenced to death for war crimes when the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh began prosecuting war criminals, and on 22 November 2015 he was hanged alongside Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed in Dhaka Central Jail.